thanks for the heads-up regarding the CAJs award and
the Garton Ash book. 

i find the Tagore quote appropriate given this thread,
and i really love your website!

all the best on all of your adventures,
ms
 
--- Maureen cusack <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Nolene wrote
> 
> <Who decides who needs to know what?>
> 
> I really get a kick out of the Canadian Association
> of Journalists' (CAJ) 
> annual Code of Silence award - given to federal and
> provincial government 
> departments with the worst track record that year of
> violating FOI laws:
> 
>
http://www.caj.ca/news/news-archives/Code-of-silence-award-PR2002.htm
> 
> The CAJ president spoke to our Information Policy
> class one year at FIS, 
> University of Toronto - he broke it down for us just
> how opacity (the deeply 
> rooted "siege mentality") is enabled throughout
> Canadian government by means 
> of FOI requests and procedures and various
> regulatory information 
> dissemination procedures. It's sort of fun to learn
> about the chess game 
> that is an FOI request.
> 
> I also got a big kick out of The File, the novel by
> Timothy Garton Ash,  
> about an ex-pat's Stasi file that he rediscovers and
> is allowed to read 
> decades later upon returning to reunified Berlin.
> Essential holiday reading.
> 
> "Big kicks" are kind of painful, wake you up, make
> you leery, and are 
> sort-of fun in a twisted, chilling way.
> 
> 
> 
> Maureen Cusack, M.I.St.
> 
> http://www.maureencusack.net
> 
> "There are two kinds of adventurers; those who go
> truly hoping to
> find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they
> won't."
>                         -Rabindranath Tagore


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